How Long Can You Take Cetrizine Hydrochloride For?

[annieigma]

allergy still with me, ( months now) all the time i take the tablets i feel fine, I stopped yesterday, and this morning big blotches and itching everywhere again, tonight an added extra, underneath of feet swollen as well. just taken another tablet, but how long can i take these for? what are they actually doing apart from making me feel better?

[Sqad]

For as long as you may need them........all your life if need be.

They are combating the unsavory effects if histamine in the fight between the antigen and the antibody.

[boxtops]

what sqad says - I take one every day I need it, certainly every day between March and October.

[jno]

I'm in them for what is probably life (and it wasn't Sqad as prescribed them, neither).

[annieigma]

Thank you all, sounds like i am stuck with them, but must admit i am taking a tablet about every 16 hours instead of 24, and the problem is not going away.
We really have tried to rule out every possible cause, have re-washed everything in non bio powder etc, still can't get to the bottom of it.

[annieigma]

Thought i might add this, in case anyone else suffers. Went back to doc, he prescribed 150m of ranitidine twice a day plus the hydro stuff. two days later, all is fine, just the slightest signs, but my hands are now white, not red and blotchy, and i wake up without lumps and bumps everywhere. Magic stuff, and I feel so much better.

[MyBlackHen]

I too itch year round, face, eyed hands feet, I was taking certirizine, 2 daily, but now prescribed Loratidine (sp) and MUCH better.